Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Maki Kaji (1951–2021), “Father of Sudoku”
legacy.comMaki Kaji was known as the “Father of Sudoku” for bringing the number puzzle to a worldwide audience through his magazine, Nikoli.The number puzzle now known as Sudoku existed before Kaji published it in Nikoli, Japan’s first puzzle magazine, which he founded in 1980.
But the puzzle wasn’t widely known, and it didn’t have its now-ubiquitous name. Kaji found the game and fell in love with it, and he decided to perfect it and include it in Nikoli.
He gave it the name Sudoku – roughly translating from Japanese to “every number must be single” – and began publishing it in Nikoli.
Kaji later copyrighted the game. It became a worldwide phenomenon, and Nikoli estimates that 200 million people have solved a Sudoku.“The secret to inventing a good.
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